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MUMBAI: Mumbai police today filed a charge sheet against four accused in last month's gangrape of a 23-year-old photo journalist. A charge sheet was filed separately against the juvenile accomplice of the accused before a juvenile court. The accused have been charge-sheeted under various sections of IPC including 376(d) (gangrape), 377 (unnatural offence), 201 (destruction of evidence) and 120(b) (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) among others. The 600-page charge sheet filed in a magistrate's court has details of the victim's ordeal, statements of 86 witnesses, forensic evidence collected from the spot, DNA analysis reports, besides phone call records.

NEW DELHI: CBI's charge sheet in the Aircel-Maxis deal is likely to get delayed further as Law Ministry has sent the file back to the agency raising queries on its findings. CBI sources said the agency has sought the opinion of Attorney General G E Vahanvati after completing its investigations into the allegations of corruption in the Aircel-Maxis deal in which the role of then Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran is under scrutiny. Maran has denied allegations against him. The sources remained tightlipped about the queries sent by the Ministry but said they will soon be replying to them.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court here today fixed May 7 for considering the charge sheet filed against three arrested accused, including two government officials, in the corporate espionage case for allegedly possessing "sensitive" documents relating to various ministries. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar Arora posted the matter for the next date after the proceedings could not take place today due to the ongoing lawyers' strike against the delay in enhancing pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts.

BHOPAL: Congress leader Ajay Singh today alleged that Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta had sought permission to take action against 14 BJP ministers in corruption cases, but Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan did not give the nod. Ahead of the Assembly polls, Ajay, who is Leader of the Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly, released "a charge sheet" against the BJP government at a press conference here. To a question, he claimed Congress, which had won 71 of the 230 seats in the state in 2008, would double its tally this time.

NEW DELHI: CBI is likely to proceed with the filing of supplementary charge sheet in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case within 10 days even if legal opinion on need of sanction to prosecute the IB officers is not received by it. CBI sources said if the legal opinion is not received before the filing of charge sheet, the agency will inform the competent court that the issue is pending with the government and may not name the IB officials...

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police today filed in a court here its charge sheet against a driver of US-based cab service provider Uber , 19 days after he allegedly raped a 27-year-old woman executive. The charge sheet was filed against 32-year-old Shiv Kumar Yadav for the alleged offences punishable under sections 376 (rape), 366 (kidnapping or abducting woman with an intent to compel her for marriage), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of IPC. Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Kumar Malik fixed the over 100-page charge sheet for consideration on January 2 and also extended the judicial custody of the driver till then.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today deferred till January 21 hearing on arguments on taking cognisance of the charge sheet filed by NIA against David Headley and eight others for planning and executing terror strikes in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai attack . The court, while posting the matter for January 21, asked the counsel for National Investigating Agency (NIA) and its officials to bring all relevant documents on that day. "As per the challan, there are nine accused, none of the accused has been arrested.

MUMBAI: With the CBI filing its first charge sheet in the Adarsh scam , the Enforcement Directorate, which is separately investigating the case, would speed up its probe, sources in the anti-money laundering agency said. "We were waiting for the charge sheet to be filed. Now we will proceed in full swing with the probe into the housing scam and examine whether a case can be made out under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act ( PMLA )," ED sources said.